For many reasons, but partly because it could influence how people donate, e.g. trying to donate more that they can realistically afford. Also, the server cost varies depending on usage, but the overall cost is more than just the server leasing - Support need to book time that they spend on MOULa rather than "paying work" (so consider that e.g. asking Cyan Support to do trivial things for your own pet project might adversely affect CAVCON for everyone).

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For many reasons, but partly because it could influence how people donate, e.g. trying to donate more that they can realistically afford. Also, the server cost varies depending on usage, but the overall cost is more than just the server leasing - Support need to book time that they spend on MOULa rather than "paying work" (so consider that e.g. asking Cyan Support to do trivial things for your own pet project might adversely affect CAVCON for everyone).

If donations are high enough there could be enough to cover employee wages that are lost due to working on Moula. But as they are not saying then we'll never know.

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I think you may be missing some of what I'm saying. It is a known fact that some of the CAVCON donation fund is necessarily used to cover the time that Cyan employees spend supporting MOULa, not a hypothesis. That was the reason that new account creation was closed down for an extended period: Support was spending an unsustainable amount of time dealing with bogus/malicious accounts (I was in discussion with Cyan on the subject at that time and know exactly how much time was involved).

So, if CAVCON is in a state that is not giving Tony concern, then it is reasonable to infer that donations are sufficient to cover the server running costs and associated personnel costs.

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I think the important thing is no matter what our individual concerns, to continue to offer cordial and sincere support for the ongoing existence of the Cavern from Cyan, and to have faith that they do their very best for us all. The overall fate of the Cavern depends on this I feel and that is our strongest showing of support to just keep the faith.

Things may happen to allow changes in the future and allow more development to the Story and the Cavern itself, Fate is like that, with Faith such changes are more likely and more possible

Dr CrisGer

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